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1002 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-Erie . . 15.98 9.95 1005 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-NP . . . 15.98 9.95 1006 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-T&P . . 15.98 9.95 1008 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-MKT . . 15.98 9.95 1009 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-NYC . . 15.98 9.95 1011 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-PRR . . 15.98 9.95 1012 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-Wab. . 15.98 9.95 1016 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-CE&I . 15.98 9.95 1017 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-EL . . . 15.98 9.95 1018 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-WM . . 15.98 9.95 1020 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-GAE . . 15.98 9.95 1023 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-GTW . 15.98 9.95 1024 50’ Single 8’ Door, Riveted Side-P&LE 15.98 9.95 1910 50’ Welded AAR Box-ACL . . . . . . . . . . . 15.98 9.95 1911 50’ Welded AAR Box-KCS . . . . . . . . . . . 15.98 9.95 1915 50’ Welded AAR Box-Family Lines (L&N) 15.98 9.95 2001 50’ Welded AAR Box-ACL . . . . . . . . . . . 15.98 9.95 2003 50’ Welded AAR Box-GM&O . . . . . . . . . 15.98 9.95 2004 50’ Welded AAR Box-LV . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.98 9.95 2007 50’ Welded AAR Box-T&P . . . . . . . . . . . 15.98 9.95 2008 50’ Welded AAR Box-SCL . . . . . . . . . . . 15.98 9.95
Bachmann Spectrum HO EM-1 . . . . 425.00 265.95 2-8-8-4 Steam Loco w/Tender, DCC B&O (Diff. #’s)
Life Like PROTO 2000 Freight Car Kit Super Sale reg. $14-$17 each Now Only $6.95 each
Mathers Stock Car-LN, GSX 50’ SD Box Car-GTW
Bachmann Spectrum HO SD45 . . . . 120.00 59.95 with DCC UP, Reading, PRR, SF, EL, CR, GN
Athearn HO Scale Super Sale
RTR SD75M-2 - National Railway Equipment . . . .119.98 67.50 RTR UTLX 33K LPG Tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35.98 23.95 RTR Genesis SD70M - EMD Lease . . . . . . .139.98 74.95 RTR Gas Turbine - UP #65 . . . . . . . . . . . . .299.98 219.95 RTR 54’ Cvrd Hopper-DRG,WP,BNSF,BN,KLEMME .24.98 13.98 RTR Smooth Side Mech. Reef-BN,SLFC,BREX,CP 16.98 13.50 RTR PS 2893 Cvrd Hopper- SP,Frisco,Jack Frost .20.98 14.98 3 Bay Offset Side Hopper (6 pack) - B&O . . . 99.98 74.95 Genesis 50’ PC&F Box-BN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37.98 24.95
MTH HO SD70ACE w/PS 3.0 Sound C&NW, WP, MoPac, Heritage, UP . . . . . . . . . . 249.95 224.95 Bachmann Spectrum Steam HO Special
USRA 2-10-2 - Southern, CN, SAL, KCS C&IM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235.00 129.95 2-10-0 - ACL, SAL, NC&St.L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180.00 99.95
Miscellaneous HO Specials
Accuready RTR ACF 3 Bay Covered Hopper WP, D&RGW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19.98 11.95
Bach. 250 T Crane & Boom Set-C&O,SF,MOW . .42.00 29.95 Branchline 40’ AAR Box-NH, Southern . . . . . . . . .10.98 7.95 Fox Valley Wagon Top Box-B&O (early,late,express) 30.95 24.99 MTH 60’ GN Wood Deck Flat Car with Motor Grader or Excavator . . . . . . . . .34.95 24.99 MTH SD70M-2 - NS, DCC Ready . . . . . . . . . . .159.95 143.95 MTH 70T Quad Hopper-Montour, Pittsburgh Coal .19.95 15.95
MTH R40-2 Wood Reefer- A&W, Dr. Pepper, Snickers, Milky Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29.95 24.95 Rapido Express Baggage Car-B&O . . . . . . . . .59.95 26.95 Tortoise #6012 Switch Machine (12) . . . . . .222.00 158.17 Walthers 89’ Flat Car - KTTX (TTX) . . . . . . . .31.98 17.95
Bachmann Spectrum Steam N Special
2-8-0 Consolidation . . . . . 185.95 89.95 C&O, UP, Seaboard
Bachmann Spectrum N 4-8-2 . . . . 185.00 79.95 UP, NC&St.L, NH, NYO&W
Miscellaneous N Specials
Athearn 50’ CIECO Box - B&M, N&W, P&LE, St. L .15.98 7.95 Athearn 50’ Ice Bunker Reefer (weathered) . . . . . .17.98 8.95 Fox Valley B&O Wagon Top Box (assort. schemes)30.95 24.99
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his month’s column is a guest piece by Pierre Oliver, who does kit reviews for RMC when he has time between custom building models, especially resin freight cars, which is what he does for a living these days. Most of us have been at the junction point Pierre discusses below, changing our modeling tracks. That can include a new layout, new prototype or new scale, and it can happen one at a time, two at a time, or as a triple play.
Sometimes this is something that should happen, but doesn’t, especially when there is a layout in our lives. Let’s face it, building a model railroad involves a large commitment of space, time, energy, emotion (we often forget that part), and money, and you can’t just flip them like pages in a book. Still, as the saying goes, “there comes a time.” Chuck Yungkurth once told me that a lot of model railroads last much too long. He was, and is, right. There are many reasons for this. The one you hear most often is “I have too much invested in ‘it,’” the “it” being whatever is sitting unloved in the train room or filling the workbench with half-built cars, structures and dried up
bottles of paint. If a layout is no longer satisfying, interesting or providing a modeling challenge, why keep it, espe- cially when it does take up so much of the above-mentioned space, time, et cetera? “Too much invested?” If the rail- road is not giving back what you put into it, it is time for it to come down. Agreed, there is the issue of replac- ing equipment and the cost of doing so, but depending on the changes, a fair portion of the freight car roster, at least, can be recycled. (Besides, in his clinics RMC author Tony Thompson has said that if you are modeling any time through the late 1970’s you are modeling Pennsy freight cars. There were so many of them, and they ran al- most everywhere. Keep those boxcars with the keystones on them.) On the sale of models you no longer need, anyone who has done this knows they will not get bundles of bucks for their treasures, but they also know that old money subsidizes new stuff. It’s just a different form of recycling. Of course, your current layout, pro- totype or modeling theme may be working right for you. Fine.
There is another side to this, however. It involves our creative nature. It might be best summed up as “so many things to model, so little time and space.” Each of us has to face that challenge in our own way. Some resist the sirens’ call even if they don’t have to tie themselves to the mast, while others go over the mountain to see what there is to see. Let’s go to another field for an example. Musicians, whether classical or con- temporary, do not stop after writing one piece, then play it over and over. Consider this: if Beethoven had not fin- ished his Eighth Symphony and gone on, we would not have gotten the Ninth. Moreover, his preceding sym- phonies were also masterpieces, and there was nothing “wrong” with them. He just had more to say. Beethoven was still writing new music up to his death in 1827 and reportedly had a tenth symphony under way. Okay, model railroading is not quite
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